Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
Patent
1991-08-09
1993-03-30
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
198633, B65G 4731
Patent
active
051975866
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for use with a continuous belt type conveyor transporting containers from the exit portion of an automatic machine for uprightly positioning and feeding containers, includes at least one first braking unit (1, 11) each having an endless belt (6) running over two spaced cylinders (7), flexible paddles (8) mounted on the belt (6) so that they extend outwardly therefrom over the area above the conveyor belt 3 and are engageable with the containers (2) as they are transported by the conveyor and a drive motor (34) for driving one of the cylinders (7) at a speed predetermined to control the linear speed of the paddles slower than the linear speed of the conveyor belt (3) to thereby move the containers relatively on the conveyor belt closer together downstream of the exit portion of the machine. A second braking unit (5) is provided downstream of the first braking unit and has a frame member (19) rotatably mounted on a vertical axis (14), fingers (12) mounted on the frame member ( 19) and extending donwstream of the conveyor for sliding engagement with the containers as they move along the conveyor, and a spring (16) for resiliently urging the frame member (19) rotatably for resiliently urging the fingers (12) into resilient engagement with the containers so that the containers are retarded or slowed in their linear speed along the conveyor (3) into contacting engagement with each other.
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